Day 20:
On June 16 (Day 20), the defense attorneys of Casey Anthony's trial began to rebut the prosecutor's evidence.
Lorie Gottesman, an FBI forensic document examiner, testified that she did not see any match between the black plastic bags that contained Caylee's remains and similar black bags seized from the Anthony home.
Gottesman also examined the duct tape that was allegedly used by Casey to suffocate Caylee, but she said the only traceable DNA evidence found on the duct tape belonged to her.
Gottesman said she used a high-tech device with special lights and filters that is capable of identifying images that are beyond the range of the human eye to see. However, she said she was "unable to detect any sticker or sticker fragment, sticker residue" on the duct tape.
Ron Murdock, crime scene investigator of the Orange County Sheriff’s Office testified that the cardboard of heart-sticker was discovered about 30 feet away from the toddler's remains. Another witness, crime scene technician Jennifer Welch said the wooded area where Caylee's remains were found was littered with trash of all sorts.
An FBI DNA expert, Heather Seubert, also testified on Thursday that she was asked by the investigators to confirm whether Casey's brother Lee Anthony could have been Caylee's father. Seubert said she had compared the DNA profiles and came to the conclusion that Lee was not Caylee's father.
Earlier on Thursday, Orange County crime scene investigator Gerardo Bloise showed the jury photos of Casey's bedroom and her clothes that were found in a closet. He said he had examined a pair of trousers belonging to Casey, which she wore on June 16, the day Caylee was last seen alive. Bloise said he examined the photos using an alternative light source to detect stains but could find none. Upon cross examination, he acknowledged that Cindy, Casey's mother, had washed the trouser between June 16, 2008 and the day he had examined it.
Thursday's final witness was FBI section chief of scientific analysis Cary Oien who testified that a small fragment of hair found on the shaft of a shovel Casey had borrowed from a neighbor was sent for mitochondrial DNA analysis but he is not aware of the results.
Discovery documents filed by the prosecutors suggest that the hair did not belong to Casey or Caylee.
Day 21:
Casey Anthony trial dragged on to June 17 (day 21) with the defense taking the stand that an odor detected was not necessarily from decomposition of Caylee's body even as the lawyers for both sides turned nasty, and verbally went for each other's jugulars, prompting the judge to issue them a stern warning.
University of Concordia, Nebraska, forensic entomologist Dr. Timothy Huntington testified Friday that the odor that the prosecutors detected in the trunk of Casey's Pontiac Sunfire did not necessarily come from the decomposition of the body of the 2-year old toddler as the prosecution alleges.
He also said the discovery of a fly leg in the trunk of Casey's car was not significant.
The defense expert also said the stain found in the trunk of the car was not stain from human body decomposition.
The entomologist also said the stain left behind by a decomposing body is no ordinary stain that can be cleaned easily. "It is a sticky, greasy, disgusting material," he said. "Once it soaks in there, I'm not sure a professional cleaner could get it out."
However, on cross examination by prosecutor Jeff Ashton, Huntington acknowledged that it is possible that in Casey's case, there was a decomposing dead body in the trunk of the car which was not accessible to blow flies. He said it is also possible that the body could have been left to decompose somewhere for 2-3 days before it was disposed off in the woods (prosecutors say Caylee's body was dumped in the woods 3-5 days after she died).
Several other witnesses, including Casey Anthony's parents, had also testified the Pontiac smelled as if a dead body had been inside.
On June 17, tempers also flared in the courtroom as Ashton and defense lawyer Jose Baez verbally went for each other's jugular. Photo: Reuters

Day 22:
A famous forensic expert testified on June 18 (Day 22), in Casey Anthony's trial that a duct tape, which was found on and near Caylee's skull, was not put on her nose and mouth before the corpse decomposed.
Internationally known forensic pathologist Dr. Werner Spitz is a member of the pathology panel and had testified to Congress concering the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and President John F. Kennedy. Spitz had also testified at the murder trials of music producer Phil Spector and athlete-turned-actor O.J. Simpson. On June 18, he testified in a packed Orlando courtroom.
"There was no evidence of skin on the duct tape. There would have been DNA on that tape if it had been placed on the face," Spitz said.
Spitz also testified that Dr. Jan Garavaglia, the prosecution's medical examiner and star of the Discovery Channel reality show "Dr. G: Medical Examiner," conducted "a shoddy autopsy", for she didn't open Caylee's skull, which is the basic autopsy procedure.
William Rodriguez, another forensic anthropologist who studies human decomposition at the University of Tennessee's Body Farm, also took the witness stand on Saturday. He said there was no way for any expert to find out the position of the duct tape on Caylee's skull.
Day 23:
Judge Belvin Perry announced the Casey Anthony trial will recess to 9 a.m. on June 19, giving no clear explanation. However, he scolds both defense attorney Jose Baez and prosecutor Jeff Ashton for their “gamesmanship”, which made him so bored.
The scheduled testimony on June 19 was canceled because Jeff Ashton asked for more time to study the forensic anthropologist William Rodriguez’s deposition.
Ashton said he needed time to depose the witness whose testimony will focus on DNA evidence. If the judge approves the sanctions, they could have ramifications on Baez's legal career.
"It's not bad enough that he wants to omit these responsibilities in the efforts of taking a human life, he wants to go after her lawyer too. I think it's repulsive, I think it's not under the law," Baez said.
The bickering between Ashton and Baez annoyed Perry greatly who asked both men to look at the clock at the same time and tell him the time. Ashton said it was 9:25 a.m. Baez said 9:26 a.m.
"Enough is enough," the judge continued. "Both sides need to be forewarned. I may have to consider exclusion, even at the price of having to do this all over. It may be the proper remedy if this continues". Photo: Reuters

Day 24:
The trial of Casey Anthony resumed on June 20 (Day 24) with the prosecutors doubting the defense lawyer's claim that Casey's 2-year-old daughter Caylee died by drowning in the family swimming pool.
According to the prosecutors, a female prisoner, who was incarcerated in the same prison as Casey, had a kid who drowned in the pool in 2007 - a scenario similar to what the defense lawyer said in the opening statement.
Jane Bock , a forensic botanist testified that Caylee's corpse might have been in the wooded area, where it was found, for about 2 weeks, according to the leaf litter at that time.
When prosecutor Jeff Ashton said a hip bone had been found nearby under four inches of leaf litter, Bock replied, "it could have been buried by a dog."
Another expert witness, Dr. Richard Eichlenbloom, also testified that he didn't find DNA on the duct tape that covered Caylee's face.
Day 25:
A string of expert witnesses took the witness stand on the 25th day of Casey Anthony's trial, but none of their testimony could prove that Casey had killed her 2-year-old daughter Caylee.
Michael Sigman, a chemistry professor at the University of Central Florida who formerly worked with the prosecutor's witness Dr. Arpad Vass, testified that although gasoline, chloroform, and other chemicals were found in the air sample taken from Casey's car, he can't confirm that Caylee's corpse was in the trunk of Casey's car.
Maureen Bottrell, an FBI forensic examiner and an expert in geology, testified that the soil in Casey's shoes didn't match with the soil at the remains site.
Another FBI expert in toxicology, Madeline Montgomery, gave her testimony in the court on Wednesday. She studied Caylee's hair among the remains and found 11 traces of drugs including sedatives. Under cross-examination, she affirmed that hair was not the best way to test for drug exposure.
An FBI forensic chemist, Michael Rickenbach, also testified that he tested items such as Caylee's car seat, Casey's steering wheel cover, a doll found in the car, a Gatorade bottle and a World of Disney shopping bag and testified he didn't find chloroform.
Karen Lowe, another FBI forensics expert, was the final witness on Wednesday. Lowe analyzed the hair sample from the trunk liner for decomposition and compared duct tapes in the crime scene and Anthonys' home. The result proved no evidence for decomposition. Photo: Reuters

Day 26:
Casey Anthony's mother Cindy took the witness stand on June 23 (Day 26), admitting that she was the one who had googled the word "chloroform" and some other words on the computer in Anthony's family in March 2008.
Cindy said she was the one who had researched chloroform at that time. Because her puppy had been eating bamboo leaves, she wanted to research chlorophyll for the dog. But the search led her to reach chloroform, for some kinds of chlorophyll can produce chloroform.
The testimony is so shocking that the prosecutor Linda Drane Burdick never believed it. She challenged that the record showed that Cindy was at the work during the alleged time of Internet searches in March 2008.
Cindy explained that her work record are often different from the truth. "We were not supposed to report overtime, so sometimes we'd only work a half day to make up for longer hours," she said.
Day 27:
Casey Anthony trial resumed on June 24 (Day 27) and the dysfunctional Anthony family was revealed under the sun as Casey's mother and brother gave their tearful testimony in the court.
Lee Anthony, Casey's brother, testified that his family had denied and kept silent about Casey's pregnancy until she was about to give birth to the baby.
Lee recalled that he doubted Casey was pregnant at first in early to mid-2005, when Casey got out of bathroom and he came in. He lived in the next room of Casey's in their parents' house and share the same bathroom.
"When I went in, she was coming out. I could see her mid-section and she was showing," Lee testified, "'Excuse me. What the hell is that?' She kinda just waved me off."
Soon Lee told his mother Cindy. But Cindy denied it and explained Casey was just putting on weight or experiencing some bloating.
Lee admitted that he was hurt by this kind of exclusion. He even decided not to visit Casey in the hospital when she gave the birth to Caylee in August 2005. But he felt so much remorse and regret that he cried out in the court.
Lee said, "I was just angry at everyone in general, that they didn't want to include me or felt it important to tell me (about the pregnancy), especially since I had already asked."
Before Lee, Cindy Anthony, Casey's mother took the witness stand and showed the jury some photos of Caylee and herself in the swimming pool.
In the photos, Calyee was climbing a ladder into an above-ground pool at Anthony's house and Cindy was supporting her. According to Cindy, swimming is almost Caylee's favorite hobby. Photo: Reuters

Day 28:
Casey Anthony's trial (Day 28) halted on June 25 because of unexplained "legal issue", according to an announcement of Judge Belvin Perry.
At 9:00 am, when the trial started, the judge and the lawyers went into a side room to talk in private. After 40 minutes later, Perry emerged and announced that the trial will be halted until next Monday 8:30 am.
Day 29:
On June 27 (Day 29), Casey Anthony trial resumed with Chief Judge Belvin Perry confirming that Casey is competent to stand for trial even as a private investigator revealed that a psychic had directed him to the spot where Caylee's remains would later be found.
Detective Yuri Melich, who testified on last Friday, testified again on Monday. He admitted that he had misstated the dates of which he subpoenaed cell phone records for Roy Kronk, a meter reader who reported finding Caylee's remains in December 2008.
Kenneth Furton, an expert in human decomposition in Florida International University, testified that until now there's no scientifically valid instrument to examine chemicals related with human decomposition.
Dominic Casey, a private investigator, also took the witness stand. He revealed that a psychic had directed him to the wooden area, where Calyee's remains were found a month later.
Dominic Casey, who was working for Casey’s parents, George and Cindy in November 2008, said he tried to find Caylee's whereabouts. When he contacted a psychic, he was told that Caylee's remains was in the vicinity of wooden area near Casey's house.
Casey went three times to the area on Nov. 15 and 16 and appeared to have walked directly over the place where Caylee's body was later found on Dec. 11.
James Hoover, an investigator who worked with Mr. Casey, also testified in the court. Hoover narrated a video he took of the private investigator walking through the woods and using a metal probe to search for buried remains. No remains were found. Photo: Reuters

Day 30
On June 28 (Day 30), Casey Anthony's ex-boyfriend and father took the witness stand, testifying about the dysfunctional family again.
Jesse Grund, Casey's boyfriend, testified that Casey had told him that she found her brother Lee stood beside her bed, staring at her, when she was sleeping. And Lee also groped her on another occasion.
Casey also admitted she didn't want her daughter Caylee to be with Lee, according to Grund. He said that they didn't discuss the matter further.
However, George, Casey's father, denied he sexually attacked her. On Tuesday, when he was asked if he had a love affair with a woman called Krystal Holloway, he also denied.
A water department meter reader named Roy Kronk, who found Caylee's remiains in a wooded area near Casey's home, also gave his testimony on Tuesday.
Kronk testified that he had found something looked like a small skull in the wooded area in August 2008, and then he had called the sheriff's department for three times.
According to Kronk, no one took him seriously until December 11, 2008, when he walked to the location again and clarified it was a real skull. Kronk said he had called his supervisor, who alerted the authorities. And then they came to the site and stumbled across Caylee's remains.
Day 31:
George Anthony, Casey's father, took the witness stand on June 29 (Day 31), admitting that he even tried to commit suicide and had bought a gun with the intention to force Casey's friends to tell the truth about Caylee's whereabouts.
George testified that he was so sad hearing about Caylee's death that he even tried to commit suicide a month after his granddaughter's remains had been found in a wooded area near his family's house.
"My emotional state even through today is very hard to accept that I don't have a granddaughter any more. But for that particular day [Jan. 22, 2009]…it just felt like the right time to go and be with Caylee," he said.
George admitted that he had bought a gun in August 2008, with the intention to force Casey's friends and associates to tell the truth about Caylee's whereabouts. He thought he would use the gun to kill himself.
"I wanted to get answers from people that I believed were involved with my granddaughter (being) missing," George said. He said he had always believed Caylee was kidnapped as Casey had said so even after Caylee's remains were found on December 11, 2008.
A grief expert Sally Karioth, who is a professor at Florida State University, explained Casey's abnormal responses, such as hanging out with her friends, and going for shopping and partying in nightclubs after Caylee went missing.
Karioth said that if a young person was in Casey's situation, she might pretend that nothing has happened. She said they often behave in a risky way, such as drinking too much and spending money till they don’t have anything. Photo: Reuters

Day 32:
On June 30 (Day 32), Casey Anthony decided not to testify in the court, whereas the alleged mistress of George Anthony, Casey’s father,'s mistress took the witness stand.
Krystal Holloway, a woman who claimed to be the mistress of Casey's father, testified that George had told her about Caylee's mysterious disappearance in 2008. Her testimony is opposite to George's, as he had denied having an extramarital love affair with Holloway and telling her about Caylee's disappearance.
Holloway also revealed that George said, "I really believe that it was an accident, and it just went wrong and she tried to cover it up."
And prosecutors had called a series of expert witness to prove that the odor in the trunk of Casey's car was smell of human decomposition. However, the defense insisted that the odor was just from a trash bag in the trunk.
Day 33:
On July 1, another indefinite recess took place. When the trial resumed, the prosecutors showed their final evidence, which mostly focused on Casey's mother Cindy's previous testimony about how she had googled "chloroform" on the computer in the Anthony's family home.
Prosecutors showed the pay records from Cindy's then-employerJohn Camperlengo, general counsel of Gentiva, the home health care company that Cindy worked for in March 2008.
According to computer forensic experts, the internet was searched between 1:43 p.m. and 1:55 p.m. on March 17 and between 2:16 p.m. and 2:28 p.m. on March 21. At that time, however, Cindy's work record showed she was at work.
The computer, which Cindy had used in the company, showed that it was logged in to update the data from 1:41 p.m. until 2:22 p.m. on March 17, and from 2:22 p.m. to 4:06 p.m. on March 21.
Camperlengo said the records were accurate, which can be inferred that Cindy was at work during that time.
On June 23, Cindy said she wanted to search information on chlorophyll, for her dog might have been sickened by bamboo leaves in the yard. The search led her to chloroform.
However, a computer forensic expert said after he had examined the search history on the computer in Anthony's family, he found no search records related to chlorophyll, bamboo or other subjects as Cindy said. Photo: Reuters

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Casey Anthony trial commenced on Monday with the jury deliberating on whether Casey had killed her 2-year old daughter Caylee in 2008 and had attempted to cover it up by lying about her whereabouts.

Casey’s lawyers are confident that the jury will return a verdict in Casey’s favor and she will be acquitted. If Casey, however, is found guilty, she may be sentenced to death.

Click on the slideshow to watch how Casey’s lawyers built up the defense and attempted to convince the jury that Caylee had accidentally died in the family swimming pool and Casey is not a murderer.